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Environment
The expedition in search of the world’s most endangered marine mammal reports a population decline
Mexico number the critically endangered vaquita The number of harbor porpoises seen in the Gulf of California dropped to between…
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Physics
The new theory links quantum geometry to electron-phonon coupling
An illustration of electron-phonon coupling between valence and conduction states in real-time and real-space. Credit: Cmelni/Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_Phonon_Coupling_Between_Valence_and_Conduction_States.png. A new…
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Space
As they target the massive gas cloud, astronomers notice changes in the thickness of the Milky Way galaxy
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope targeted the Smith Cloud for their observations, however, the inner Milky…
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Physics
Observations explore Centaurus A’s halo
Archival optical image (at 468 nm wavelength) of NGC 5128 taken with the UK Schmidt telescope superimposed on the location…
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Physics
Dark excitations shed new light on matter
Left: The device consists of a 2D semiconductor between two mirrors, the polariton in purple and the dark excitons in…
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Space
A mission to find 10 million near-Earth asteroids every year
Artist’s rendering of a Sutter demonstration mission. Credit: Sercel / TransAstra Corporation / Anthony Longman So far, scientists have found…
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Physics
The new theory describes how waves carry information from the surroundings
Teflon objects (orange cylinders) were placed in a waveguide with a rectangular cross section. Then, an electromagnetic signal (blue wavefront)…
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Physics
The new method integrates quantum dots with metasurfaces for enhanced luminescence
Schematic diagram of the fabrication of a luminescence-controlled metasurface using the nanoimprint lithography process. Credit: POSTECH A study published in…
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Physics
Researchers reveal the dynamic nature of emergent magnetic monopoles in real magnets for the first time
The collective excitation modes of hedgehog gratings are governed by Dirac string oscillations, connecting a hedgehog and an anti-hedgehog, which…
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Physics
A route to scaled Majorana qubits
A scanning electron micrograph of a nanodevice that was measured to obtain the results presented in the paper. Credit: QuTech…
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